my progress so far,

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019 edited March 2020

  I am getting good at gideros! You can see my progress in the video:
  
  I am using cbump and camera.lua. Viva gideros studio!

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• Apollo14 Member

  August 2019

  You're learning fast
  You had some programming background?

  > Newcomers roadmap: from where to start learning Gideros
  "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
  “The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019

  @Apollo14 yes some programming background: c# and java (android) mostly and a lot of vba (ms excel)! And very recently lua because I wanted so hard to use gideros!
  
  IMO someone should do a basic gideros platformer tutorial, that's what people want to see before trying any engine. That will bring new users for sure!

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• oleg Member

  August 2019 Accepted Answer

  @MoKaLux
  Platformer is too difficult for beginners, as i recommended starting with a runner
  https://www.defold.com/tutorials/runner/
  
  or
  Side scroller
  https://github.com/defold/tutorial-side-scroller
  
  
  I have been wanting to adapt these lessons to gideros for a long time. But all is not enough time.

  my games:
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=razorback456
  мій блог по гідерос https://simartinfo.blogspot.com
  Слава Україні!
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  @oleg I tried defold a long time ago, I did not know lua at that time and couldn't even complete their beginner tutorials.
  
  In defold, you have to understand the framework and lua at the same time. That was too much for me so I gave up after 2 or 3 days.
  
  Here in gideros studio, you just have to understand lua and there you go!
  
  So gideros all the way for me now!

  my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories

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• oleg Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019 Accepted Answer

  @MoKaLux
  I gave examples of textbooks,
  Such tutorials should be made for gyderos.
  
  
  It's just as easy for me to write a game in Corona, defold, unity, gideros - and I use all these engines
  
  
  
  

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  Слава Україні!
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  @oleg yes that could be nice examples but I don't like endless runners, people want platformers. I am trying to add more things to my "demo", and see how far I can go.
  My goals are:
  -adding enemies (mostly done)
  -player lifes
  -player can fire projectiles
  -changing level
  -collecting coins
  -...
  
  Maybe we can collaborate to get a full example for gideros?
  
  I'll post my progress soon.

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• oleg Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019 Accepted Answer

  MoKaLux said:

  @oleg yes that could be nice examples but I don't like endless runners, people want platformers.

  Developers want platformers, and people want runners !.
  Platformers don't make money.
  
  Everyone knows this rayman-legends game.
  It's a PC platformer, but for mobile platforms, they've turned it into a runner.
  
  
  
  
  *I have almost ready platformer for 100 game levels, but i froze the project because i can't monetize it on PC and it is not suitable for mobile platforms ..

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  Слава Україні!
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  August 2019 Accepted Answer

  oleg said:

  
  Developers want platformers, and people want runners !.
  

  Sad but true, according to my own recent experience...
  
  

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• keszegh Member

  August 2019

  platformers need tight controls, so it's not a surprise that they are less fun on touchscreens.

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019 edited March 2020

  ok, developers want to be able to "easily" make platformers with their engine of choice BUT non developers want to play endless runner games.
  
  My progress so far:
  
  Added enemies, can go down platforms, lives.
  The player and the enemies are part of the map so they are spawned from their position in the map! Cool!
  
  The big ugly buttons at the bottom are for mobile controls (I forgot to show in the video). I may use tntvirtualpad!?

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• Nanocore Member

  August 2019

  Not to de-rail the great conversation, but I have been on the fence about the game engine to use and was going through the tutorials. I felt like I was missing something so I went and looked at love2d and defold (as of 8/19) and actually reading through this thread kinda pulled me back down to using Gideros. Now if I can just find similar english tutorials that @MoKaLux used to get this far with his demo... Or, maybe convert the tutorials that @oleg linked from defold...

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019

  @Nanocore thank you for your post. I plan to do some YT tutorials based on this "demo" platformer. I need a few more days to add more features like ladders, shooting, … or shall I start a gideros platformer YT series now?

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• Apollo14 Member

  August 2019 Accepted Answer

  @MoKaLux nice idea with platformer tutorial! Btw I'd use some cute graphics, maybe from Kenny:
  https://opengameart.org/content/abstract-platformer
  
  @Nanocore maybe 'newcomer's roadmap' will help? https://blog.giderosmobile.com/2018/08/newcomers-roadmap-from-where-to-start.html

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  > Newcomers roadmap: from where to start learning Gideros
  "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
  “The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)

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• antix Member

  August 2019

  Basically people want "dumb" games because they are too pig-s**t stupid to actually play a real game anymore. Well at least that seems to be the case from my casual observations

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• Apollo14 Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  antix said:

  Basically people want "dumb" games because they are too pig-s**t stupid to actually play a real game anymore. Well at least that seems to be the case from my casual observations

  There're even whole genres with super dumb gameplay
  Recently I've watched youtube video about Casino games, where guy said there're people who go to vacation to just 'spin-spin-spin' one button all the time. Players want "zombie effect"
  

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  > Newcomers roadmap: from where to start learning Gideros
  "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
  “The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019

  people want tutorials guys! platformer tutorials that's why godot attracted so many coders (newbies and pros). That's all I know.
  
  I want to help with the yt tutorials so doing my best to learn gideros.
  I may do text tutorials as well!?
  Have fun!

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  August 2019

  I think game examples would be nice. I don't mean full games, but playable basic game mechanics such as platformer, match3, runner, etc

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2019

  @Apollo14 Great slots video - I'll be re-thinking a couple of things after watching that.

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  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019

  platformer progress:
  - snakes bite
  - "enemies" die animation
  - touch control for mobile
  
  
  
  I doubted I could do platformers using gideros studio and it proved me wrong! Viva gideros.

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• antix Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  @MoKaLux Gideros can totally do platformers...
  
  
  Those are two of many platformer frameworks I've made with gideros.. Using the built in tilemap class and bump collision it's very easy.
  
  Somewhere in the forums somebody created a platformer using box2d physics and shared the entire code as well

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• Nanocore Member

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  I agree to both a runner and platform tutorial. It would seem to me that that covers a majority of what gets people started in game development. From there it gives a strong foundation to expand into other game types. My first app with Gideros is actually a rewrite of one that I wrote with C++/cocos2d about 4 years ago. Since I have the template already, I just need to know what the equivalent Gideros gui elements. From there I am interested in both a runner and a platformer (think Lost Vikings). So, while I have a bit of time finishing up this app, I will be eager to jump into which ever tutorial you can produce.

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• MoKaLux Member

  August 2019

  @antix very nice demos! How did you do for the slopes? I thought cbump couldn't deal with slopes?!
  And I need to have a look at the built in tilemap class. Thanks for sharing.

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• antix Member

  August 2019

  @MoKaLux Slopes are tricky because yes.. cbump does not do them. Basically I have y data stored for each slope. If the player is on a slope block then I get the x offset and that gives the y max position for that tile.
  
  It really is fiddly and I think I could make something a bit better but it was quick and I had also made something very similar for a failed 2d endless runner game as well.
  

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